Quote Originally Posted by monk-dps View Post
If I may, it effects everyone when SE chooses not to add fun things in the future cause the playerbase at large doesn't use it as intended. They could say things like " it's a waste of resourses and manpower for features to not be used in the way we attended it." And it's not like they haven't done or said things like this. So that could be a huge red flag. It's pretty much the term " This is why we can't have nice things"
It hasn't stopped them so far. Lords of Verminion is still in the game. Also we saw with Eureka people leveling in ways other than what SE intended... they kept developing Eureka anyway.

Be wary of putting SE on too high a pedestal. Even if something doesn't work out exactly the way they thought it would doesn't stop them from doing other things. They haven't made themselves into the fun police just yet.

Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
I could see it being an issue if it artificially increases the amount of people running that one section of the story and having an unnecessarily high number of people hanging around those quest NPCs and objectives.

If it comes to people using bots to auto-run that story chapter repeatedly... from previous times when I've encountered bots running the same story quest I'm doing, they're "rude" by social perception and it feels quite distracting to have them on screen. They stand on top of the quest NPC at point-blank range whereas an actual player would position their character at a normal distance for interacting with someone.

And I'm not just saying this because it makes the NPC hard to target - I know there are workarounds for that - but it just feels unpleasant when the character you're talking to is standing 'inside' a random player that just popped up on top of them.
I very seriously doubt you'd get crowds around an NPC that would cause any significant problems. You get that kind of thing on launch days because literally everyone is doing the same thing at the same time. It's not really a comparable situation here.

As for "bots exist, so don't do this" ... no. Screw them. That's allowing the existence of bots to ruin something they shouldn't be able to ruin. That kind of thinking is why we can't send mail to our own alts. Because "rmt exists so don't allow this" ... news flash here: it hasn't even slowed them down.